معرفی
Shawn Burton serves as a Research Assistant Professor at Lehigh University, maintaining an active research laboratory in room B328 of Iacocca Hall. His work centers on neural computation within the mammalian olfactory system, leveraging the olfactory bulb as a model for understanding fundamental brain circuitry.
Dr. Burton's research program investigates two critical neural mechanisms:
- How synaptic motifs like recurrent and lateral inhibition enable behavioral discrimination of complex odorants
- How parallel circuit architectures simultaneously encode complementary olfactory information streams
His experimental approach integrates acute slice electrophysiology, functional imaging, genetic targeting, molecular perturbations, and behavioral assays with computational simulations to decode sensory processing principles. This multidisciplinary methodology bridges molecular, cellular, and systems-level neuroscience to reveal universal neural coding mechanisms beyond olfaction.
